Nostalgia: Things You Had Growing Up

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    My all time favorite! Stock pic, but I recently picked up a MIB set! :smile:
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    verb wrote: »
    My all time favorite! Stock pic, but I recently picked up a MIB set! :smile:
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    When men were men and toys were dangerous!
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Hear hear! Supposed to be a tether car, goes round and round, boring after a while, so we run it and set up to launch on ramps, etc. Had to get it off the neighbors roof once! :smile:
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,271
    daddyjt wrote: »
    Played for hours with this...

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    I was really into star wars toys, but I don't ever remember see that before! Cool!
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,271
    afterburnt wrote: »
    When men were men and toys were dangerous!
    I had yard darts! Remember those?

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Hermitism wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    When men were men and toys were dangerous!
    I had yard darts! Remember those?

    Oh yeah!
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    Just a few I built growing up.
    I built a few of the classic Monster models too. Those were really fun. What happened to them only MOM knows. :'(

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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,108
    verb wrote: »
    I had the space crawler! Wow! :smile:

    That's the one piece I don't remember. :p
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,900
    ooh, I built that B-52! It was huge!
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ooh, I built that B-52! It was yuuuuge!

    FTFY
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,772
    Hermitism wrote: »
    These were the toys of Jesse's youth. :smiley:

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    Beat me to my early toy collection. Almost lost an eye...
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,108
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  • Derf
    Derf Posts: 229
    Model cars were my thing. I’d collect parts and pieces from other sets and build my own. Put a blower from a drag rail on a 57 Chevy, cut a hole in the hood with a pocket knife so it could stick through, used sewing thread to make spark plug wires. All while listening to Kiss, Boston, BTO albums on my JCPenney stereo. Good times!
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,596
    Hot Wheels Sizzilers with Fattrack. Peace. D8lvwf1jg53vx.png
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    edited April 2018
    Nightfall wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ooh, I built that B-52! It was yuuuuge!

    FTFY

    I think it had a 4' wingspan and I still faintly can remember that sound it made almost 50 years later. My Dad and I were so glad I put it together so well. It hung up in the air in my bedroom for a couple of years.

    That Hughie Chopper made a great sound too. Plus the blades turned I think. That was another successful build. Imagine if a model had spinning blades now. It wouldn't be allowed on the shelves. :#

    I just remembered I built a Jaguar XKE that has sounds, a working stearing system and headlights that you could turn on and off from the dash I think it was. Now that was a HARD one for me. It was an awesome kit with GREAT directions. It was BIG like in this picture but it was molded in CLASSIC RED. This picture looks like it has lightbulbs where the headlights are too.
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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,108
    Hermitism wrote: »
    I had yard darts! Remember those?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,647
    edited April 2018
    Ha, I had that one in my collection.

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    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    Yea I remember when they came out and then in a week they were pulled from the shelves because of what that picture shows happened when a punk brother wants to scare you. I was about his age above if I remember right.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,108
    edited April 2018
    Look in the background!!! :p

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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    I never finish my models, glue ya know.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    Those brought back memories of these clackers who had a little longer shelf life before they were pulled too because of eye injuries from the glass breaking. Who thought these glass balls wouln't break at some point.

    I even got good at clacking them too. But I didn't have my own pair so I didn't do it much.
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    I guess these were the safe version but I don't know..
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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,772
    Tony M wrote: »
    Those brought back memories of these clackers who had a little longer shelf life before they were pulled too because of eye injuries from the glass breaking. Who thought these glass balls wouln't break at some point.

    I even got good at clacking them too. But I didn't have my own pair so I didn't do it much.
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    I guess these were the safe version but I don't know..
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    @Tony M hmmm, always heard about it but never once saw them shatter. They were a fine weapon for accidental stealth attacks on classmates that you didn't care for.
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,271
    Viking64 wrote: »
    Look in the background!!! :p

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    Are the girls in the background doing laundry or abandoning ship?

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    Somebody saw the glass grapes for table decorating back then and thought..... :#

    I don't think I ever saw a pair break either.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,041
    ,8,1 return . Nuff said
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,159
    edited April 2018
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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,562
    lightman1 wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I grew my first beard in '84

    At age 3? :smiley:

    Ha! I was about to graduate high school.

    I was already graduated and living large in my own pad.... >:)>:)>:)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,562
    Conradicles wrote: »
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    Still have mine and it works
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,900
    Nightfall wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ooh, I built that B-52! It was yuuuuge!

    FTFY

    I came so close to typing that -- but figured it best to let sleeping dogs lie ;)
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